The Sketchbook Series
Publisher: Rigby Limited. Country: Australia. Date: 1966 - c. 1982.
Parramatta Sketchbook, Adelaide: Rigby, 1974 (The Sketchbook Series)
Illustrations: Unk White (well-known Sydney cartoonist for The Bulletin, Smith's Weekly, etc. and member of Sydney's Bohemian scene).
Text: Olaf Ruhen (well-known for his novels such as Naked Under Capricorn and documentary writings such as Mountains in the Clouds).
THE SKETCHBOOK SERIES (Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1966 - c. 1982) - CHECKLIST
Series Note: The Sketchbook Series comprised approximately 175 titles. Subjects covered included cities, suburbs, towns, regions (e.g. Kelly Country, tropical Queensland) and geographical features (e.g. bays, harbours, islands, mountains) right across Australia as well as of characteristically Australian places and items (e.g. hotels, pubs, churches, schools, vineyards, goldfields, horses, ships, riverboats). There was an emphasis in many of the books on historic buildings. A couple of sketchbooks featured areas outside Australia (e.g. Auckland, Fiji).
Cedric Emanuel illustrated many of the books in this series. Other artists who illustrated books included Bill Beasley, Paul Rigby and Unk White. The text of the books was written by quite a few well-known writers such as Patsy Adam-Smith, Brian Carroll, Alexandra Hasluck, Bill Hornadge, Douglas Lockwood, Peter Luck, Valmai Phillips, Olaf Ruhen, Colin Thiele and Tess van Sommers.
Each book was published as a series of full page black-and-white sketches accompanied in each by a short description. The majority of the books were originally published as octavo sized hardbacks with dust wrappers (about a dozen books were published as oblong quarto hardbacks). Some of the books were later republished as hardbacks or paperbacks.
Alphabetical Arrangement
Adelaide
Adelaide Hills
Albany
Angaston
Auckland
Australian Horses
Australian Ships
Ballarat and Western Goldfields
Balmain
Barossa Valley
Bassendean and Guildford
Bathurst
Beechworth
Bendigo and the Eastern Goldfields
Blue Mountains
Brighton
Brighton and Seacliff
Brisbane
Broken Hill
Bunbury and Busselton
Burra
Cairns
Canberra
Carlton and Parkville
Cedric Emanuel's Canberra
Cedric Emanuel's Melbourne
Cedric Emanuel's Paddington
Cedric Emanuel's Sydney
Cedric Emanuel's Sydney Harbour
Christchurch
Clare and District
Collins Street
Dandenong
Darling Downs
Darwin
Diamond Valley
Fiji
Frankston and Mount Eliza
Fremantle
Gawler
Geelong
Geraldton
Gippsland
Glenelg
Gold Coast and Green Mountains
Goulburn
Grampians
Hahndorf
Hawkesbury River
Hawthorn and Kew
Historic Buildings of Sydney
Historic Hobart
Hobart
Hunter's Hill
Illawarra
Ipswich
Kangaroo Island
Kelly Country
Kensington and Norwood
Launceston
Magill
Melbourne
Melbourne Churches and Schools
Mildura and Wentworth
Mitcham Village
Moonta, Wallaroo, Kadina
Mosman
Mount Gambier
National Trust (Victoria)
Newcastle and Hunter Valley
New England
Norfolk Island
North Adelaide
Northern Territory
Old Adelaide Hotels
Old Melbourne Hotels
Old Victorian Country Pubs
Paddington
Parramatta
Perth
Phillip Island
Port Adelaide
Port Arthur
Portland
Port Lincoln
Port Macquarie
Port Phillip Bay
Port Pirie
Riverboats
River Murray
River Yarra
The Rocks, Sydney
Richmond and East Melbourne
Rottnest Island
Second Melbourne
South East
Southern Highlands
Southern Vineyards
Sydney
Sydney Harbour
Tasmania
Tea Tree Gully
Toorak and South Yarra
Tropical Queensland
Victor Harbor and District
Watsons Bay
Wellington
West Australian Goldfields
Western District
Windsor
Yankalilla and District
Yorke Peninsula
The above list originally appeared opposite the title page in one of the Sketchbooks published during the 1970s.
Further information:
Rigby Sketchbooks
Cedric Emanuel
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